Drawing from theory on the “co‐production” of science and society, this paper provides an account of trajectories in US climatology, roughly from the 1850s to 1920, the period during which climatology emerged as an organized branch of meteorology and government administration. The historical narrative traces the development of climatology both as a professional/institutional project and as a component of a larger governmental logic. Historical analysis of climatologists' scientific texts, maps, and social organization within government provides a sociological explanation for the emergent “stabilization” of climate as a geographic‐statistical category. Climatic stability, defined by the view that climate is unchanging, was advanced over this period in a way that linked the interests and practices of climatologists to actors invested in facilitating and administrating commercial agriculture and trade. I position the logic of climatology and the discourse of climatic stability historically, with reference to prior concern with climate change and, in recent decades, efforts to govern global warming through geoengineering climatic stability.

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农业资本主义、气候学和美国气候的“稳定”，1850-1920

本文从科学与社会“共同生产”的理论出发，描述了美国气候学的轨迹，大致从 1850 年代到 1920 年，在此期间，气候学成为气象学和政府管理的一个有组织的分支。历史叙述追溯了气候学作为专业/机构项目和更大政府逻辑的组成部分的发展。对气候学家的科学文献、地图和政府内部社会组织的历史分析，为气候作为地理统计类别的新兴“稳定化”提供了社会学解释。气候稳定由气候不变的观点定义，在这一时期以一种将气候学家的利益和实践与投资于促进和管理商业农业和贸易的参与者联系起来的方式得到推进。我从历史上定位气候学的逻辑和气候稳定性的论述，参考先前对气候变化的关注，以及近几十年来通过地球工程气候稳定性来控制全球变暖的努力。